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January 30—United States—A major ice storm hit Kansas City, Missouri, knocking trees into power lines and blowing up transformers throughout the city. The outage affected more than 270,000 people. [ 74] March 12— Indonesia —A power failure affected 13 million people in South Sumatra and Lampung.
2012 India blackouts. Two severe power outages affected most of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 400 million people and lasted about 13.5 hrs. During that period, it was the largest power outage in history by number of people affected, beating the January 2001 blackout in Northern India ...
In India, the Reserve Bank of India said that only 10 banks and NBFCs were affected by the outage; [149] [150] few banks use CrowdStrike tools and many banks' critical systems do not run on the cloud. NSE, BSE, [150] and India's largest bank, State Bank of India, said they were unaffected. [151] In Brazil, Bradesco Bank confirmed it was ...
A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.
A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user . There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission ...
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis. The International Atomic Energy Agency declares that the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is deteriorating, following an investigation into an explosive drone strike that targeted a perimeter access road at the power plant. Israel–Hezbollah conflict. Nabatieh attack
Duke Energy Florida, the main electric provider in that area, said it was working hard and through environmental hazards to get power restored. By Wednesday night, that number fell to around 191,000.
4 Feb - SEA-ME-WE-4 near Penang, Malaysia. The 2008 submarine cable disruption refers to three separate incidents of major damage to submarine optical communication cables around the world. The first incident caused damage involving up to five high-speed Internet submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East from ...